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sanjayssk's avatar
sanjayssk
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Need .Net sample for download to file

I'm using Dropbox API in an asp.net application. I have managed to download the file contents into a stream upto the following line of code in an async task.   var strm = response.GetContentAsStr...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago

    The GetContentAsStream method yields a Stream, so you should be able to use CopyTo like this:

     

    var strm = await response.GetContentAsStreamAsync();

using (var fileStream = File.Create(localFilePath))
{
    strm.CopyTo(fileStream);
}
yasirjaseem's avatar
yasirjaseem
New member | Level 2

How to call it on windows/desktop application to download file.

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